Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Military Ballooning. [ARTICLE]

Military Ballooning.

Some experiments in military ballooning: have just been made in France. Five balloons were released from the Esplanade des lnvalides in Paris, the aeronauts in charge having been previously instructed to pass over a radius of twenty miles of country supposed to be held by an enemy, and then to descend as closely as possible to Combs la Ville. One of the balloons descended within a mile of the desired place, and two others at a point somewhat more distant from it.